Fertility in Nicaragua, 2024

Nicaragua
2024
Total fertility rate: 2.21
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2024 1994, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
Total fertility rate, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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The total fertility rate of Nicaragua is projected at 2.21 children per woman in 2024 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (118 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 26.0 years old. In total, 132,383 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.21
Births
132,383
Births per 1,000 people
19.1
Mean age of mothers
26.0
Births to mothers aged 15–19
22.6%
Net reproduction rate
1.06
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.5
Population
6,916,140
The net reproduction rate counts only daughters who survive to their mothers' age: below 1, each generation of women is smaller than the one before.
Mother's ageBirths per 1,000 womenShare of total fertilityBirths
10-145.51.2%1,805
15-1993.221.1%29,964
20-24117.926.7%36,099
25-29102.523.2%30,776
30-3471.016.1%20,562
35-3939.58.9%10,425
40-4411.02.5%2,558
45-491.00.2%195
50-540.00.0%0